Acorns (German: ''Eichel'', or more unusually ''Hackl'' or ''Ecker'') is a

suit A suit, lounge suit, or business suit is a set of clothes comprising a suit jacket and trousers of identical textiles worn with a collared dress shirt, necktie, and dress shoes. A skirt suit is similar, but with a matching skirt instead of ...

in a deck of

German playing cards German-suited playing cards are a very common style of traditional playing card used in many parts of Central Europe characterised by 32- or 36-card packs with the suits of Acorns (''Eichel'' or ''Kreuz''), Leaves (''Grün'', ''Blatt'', ''Laub ...

or Swiss playing cards. This suit was invented in 15th-century German-speaking lands and is a survivor from a large pool of experimental suit signs created to replace the Latin suits. Around 1480, French card makers adapted this sign into clubs in a

French deck French-suited playing cards or French-suited cards are cards that use the French suits of (clovers or clubs ), (tiles or diamonds ), (hearts ), and (pikes or spades ). Each suit contains three or four face/court cards. I ...

(known as clovers in France). In English, cards are referred to as in a French deck (e.g. the "10 of Acorns"), but in German as ''Eichel-Zehn''. Acorns are the highest suit in the

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of Skat,

Schafkopf Schafkopf (), also called Bavarian Schafkopf, is a popular German trick-taking card game of the Ace-Ten family for four players that evolved, towards the end of the 19th century, from German Schafkopf. It is still very popular in Bavaria, where it ...

and Doppelkopf, but the lowest in Préférence. In

Watten Watten may refer to: Places * Watten, Nord, a commune in the Nord ''département'' of France ** ''Blockhaus d'Éperlecques'' or Watten bunker, intended to be a launching facility for the V-2 ballistic missile * Watten, Highland, a village in Cai ...

, the 7 of Acorns (the ''Spitz'' or ''Soach'') is the third highest trump card. The gallery below shows a suit of Acorns from a German-suited deck of 32 cards. The pack is of the Saxonian pattern: File:Saxonian Deck - Acorns - 07.jpg , 7 File:Saxonian Deck - Acorns - 08.jpg , 8 File:Saxonian Deck - Acorns - 09.jpg , 9 File:Saxonian Deck - Acorns - 10.jpg, 10 File:Saxonian Deck - Acorns - Unter.jpg ,

Unter Unter (German, 'under', 'below' or 'among') may refer to: * Unter (playing card), the Jack card in German and Swiss-suited playing cards * Unter Null, stage name of Erica Dunham, an American musician See also * * Über (disambiguation), the a ...

File:Saxonian Deck - Acorns - Ober.jpg ,

Ober Ober may refer to: * '' Ober'', a 2006 Dutch black comedy film * Ober (playing card), a playing card value in the German and Swiss decks of cards * Ober, Indiana, an unincorporated community * Oberek, a Polish dance Surname * Bailey Ober (born ...

File:Saxonian Deck - Acorns - King.jpg ,

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File:Saxonian Deck - Acorns - Deuce.jpg,

Deuce Deuce, Deuces, or The Deuce may refer to: Arts and entertainment Fictional characters * Deuce, in the '' Danger Girl'' comic book series * Deuce, a character in ''Shake It Up'' * Deuce, in the '' Wild Cards'' science fiction universe * Deuce Bi ...

Individual cards

The following cards have special powers or names in certain games: * Ober of Acorns - permanent top trump in

, where it is known as the Old Man (''der Alte'') * Unter of Acorns - permanent trump in

and top trump in Skat. * Seven of Acorns - one of the top three trumps in games like

, where it is called the ''Spitz'' ("tip" or "point")

References

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